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Originally Posted by Wannabee  The problem isn't so much if people are "called" something as much as if they "demand" to be called something. I disagree with the Rev. title and won't use it in any capacity. That's my position. But if someone calls me pastor or elder, I just accept it as if they called me Joe. My sons call me dad. My wife calls me all sorts of things, many of them none of your business. But I also see great value in simply calling someone "brother Jim" or "sister." Titles should be honoring who God is, not honoring who the man is. The authority is established by God in the position, not in the person. |
I totally agree. My dad's current pastor will not respond to someone unless they refer to him as Pastor Mike. He says that it is showing respect to the position of pastor blah blah blah. To make matters worse, apparently the prestige of pastor is given to his wife to the degree that she must be referred to as Pastor Dottie.
